Minka Peters

My practice explores architectural space as a vessel for memory. I focus on rental properties that have housed many people over time and collected layers of their traces over time. I investigate the scratches on floors, markings on walls as well as biological traces including skin particles, bacteria and dirt trapped in the in-between spaces of temporary rental homes. The process of collecting these traces is a way for me to preserve memories of my own rental home and is informed by archeological methods of uncovering information from a site.

The work addresses the current crisis of housing accessibility in Australia and the instability of living in a rental home. My process involves experimentation with a range of materials and is informed by the technologies of casting and printmaking. Many of the materials used in my work are fragile, transparent and subject to change, which I use as a means to consider the slipperiness of memory and time.